Nurse of Herbert Armstrong and Joseph Tkach
pursues rights complaint

BIG SANDY, Texas--The nurse who was with both Herbert
Armstrong and Joseph Tkach Sr. when they died has filed a complaint with
the Texas Human Rights Commission against Ambassador University.

Bob Herrington, who attends with the United Church
of God, was dismissed from AU last November. He said that, when he filed
for unemployment benefits with the Texas Employment Commission, officials
of that state agency suggested he contact the Human Rights Commission because
of possible discrimination. Mr. Herrington says a university official told
him he could not work for AU and also attend services of the UCG.

The commission is investigating a complaint brought
by Mr. Herrington, but "I want to emphasize that I am not suing the
university," he said.

He said he left Ambassador, where he had served
as a nurse since 1984, after staffers there were forbidden to attend the
church of their choice.

Russell Duke, president of the school, "said
at a meeting that faculty and students would be allowed to worship where
they wanted, but he said staff would not be allowed to attend with any organization
deemed dissident," Mr. Herrington, a licensed vocational nurse and
paramedic, told In Transition.

"It didn't seem right," Mr. Herrington
said. "I had received a letter from Mr. [Ralph] Helge [WCG lawyer]
early in the college's accreditation process stating the church and college
were separate entities."

"I feel I've been a pretty good nurse; I've
done my job for the university well," he said. "Nurses are to
follow the Nurse Practice Act. I asked Dr. Duke to judge my job performance
by the Nurse Practice Act, rather than where I went to church.

"He told me I could not attend United."

Mr. Herrington said he consciously avoided making
his religious views known to students and others he was in contact with
at the university.

Mr. Herrington said he resigned to avoid being
fired, thereby keeping his personnel record clean.

"They offered me a severance package, but
to get it I had to sign a paper which I felt gave away my civil rights,"
Mr. Herrington. "My father died when I was a boy; I remember his example.
He was in the Korean War fighting for our rights. I did not get severance."

He said he drew only unemployment compensation
for a short time, then found new employment. He then decided to return to
school to study to become a funeral director.

Mr. Herrington, who joined the Ambassador nursing
staff in 1984 while an AU student, managed the university's health center
from 1989 to 1995.

He attended Mr. Armstrong and was with him when
he died in January, 1986. He was also called to Pasadena, Calif., last summer
during Mr. Tkach's fatal bout with cancer. He was with him when he died
last September.